duration
noun
the length of time something continues or exists (often used withthe ).
durational
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a word derived from
duration.
Example Sentences
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The durational performance “Police State,” staged by Pussy Riot frontwoman Nadya Tolokonnikova, was originally scheduled to continue in the warehouse through Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
At Sprüth Magers’ Los Angeles outpost, the opening’s relatively brief taste of Imhof’s durational work won’t be repeated.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
And I feel like practices that are performance-based, that have a durational relation to materials, that are functioning within their own temporality outside of these market calendars — there is a power to that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
Gosti says the five-hour, durational performance was created in a response to the architecture and history of the building, and relationship to bodies and time.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2022
He inspires, supports, indeed inhabits, both the durational, conditioned, finite world of Becoming and the unconditioned, non-successional, infinite world of Being; yet utterly transcends them both.
From Songs of Kabir by Rabindranath Tagore
